I found this interesting map in the SOMA gamefiles. Its under SOMA\textures\decals\signs\world map.dds

I haven't found it in game, but it seems to be hinting at other similar underwater stations throughout the world. I translated part of the map for those who can't read Chinese.

There is also the question as why did they name PATHOS-II directly as "Alpha" in the map. And whether if the "Alpha" in this map corresponds to the Alpha station found in the game. If they talk about Alpha in this map, most, if not all of the PATHOS-II personel only knew about Alpha through rumours. Why would they hide "Alpha" from the crewmembers? Was PATHOS-II's original goal also to test sentient AI?

I haven't find anything else in the gamefiles or in game that talks about other survivors, if you guys found any, please share it here.

Now this is just speculation, but the map gives us pretty good proof that there might be other survivors in the SOMA world and the real purpose of PATHOS-II.

If anyone can find this map in game, please post where and in what circumstances you can find it, thanks!

my theory why it says alpha: this is a map made and owned by carthage, the secret company behind the scenes. alpha is the home of what they consider the most important thing on pathos II, the wau. why would carthage give a fuck about say, theta? wau is what they care about

Yea that would be pretty sound. And anything related to this map in game would give hints too. Have you found the location of this in game? Who is it associated with, what other clues, audio recordings, pictures, etc...

I just marathoned the game in two days, but I definitely remember it being closer to the beginning of the game. The map I saw had english names; not chinese(?). I know this for sure because when I looked at this picture the first thing I noticed is that the names were all wrong. The translation isn't very good (i.e. that station is 100% not named Hell).

This definitely jives with the 'fault line activity' that makes Simon's trek through the abyss so perilous. It does make you wonder, though... Why in the world would anyone build something as expensive and delicate as a mother fucking space gun right next to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? That's probably the least geologically stable place on Earth...

Since the gun is powered by magnets, it would probably need as much track as it can get. Plus, it has to be at a certain angle because it's meant to send objects into orbit. You can even see the full length of the space gun in the maps, since it runs from Omega to Phi.

Don't get me wrong, I totally see how the massive space requirements make it logical for the gun to be built on the abyssal plain. What I don't get is why it would be located in such a tectonically-active area as an ocean ridge. I mean... the ocean is pretty huge, right? Why not put it some place a little more stable?

It just occurred to me that building PATHOS-II near such an insanely active fault might be the whole point. Early in the game they mention that Upsilon is basically the world's largest geothermal power plant. Maybe all of that 'geothermal' energy is available because of the proximity to the fault itself? Certainly seems easier to generate the power on-site rather than run power lines all the way to the middle of the Atlantic.

mostly inconsistent gibberish above & below, ? = illegible characters. And I'm not trying to translate it like normal written English, I took a more "literal" approach to show you that it's mostly gibberish.

(something's) world map, can form upon a (unique) map, but due to the problem of projection. It is necessary to deform the rendition of the Earth's surface. (When) the deformation becomes too extreme (blah blah) world map. (Something) being projected onto the Earth's different aspects, this shows us the different techniques and artistic goals, world map.

World map also helps in building different (something) for the Globe's needs, a meaningful world map cannot (something), During the times of the Renaissance in Europe, since the Earth's coasts are not matching by half, how could we say about its internal (something)

Hi-Res Image Request:

I am Chinese, but I need a higher-res image of it, some characters are hard to tell.

Also I bet it's just a random extract of some encyclopedia articles, since the beginning of the paragraph is grammatically incorrect, it started with a verb but not a noun or pronoun.

Anyways, please supply a hi-res image and I'll translate it more accurately. Thanks.

Unfortunally, we will have to ask the devs to provide an high-res image of that texture, as I only extracted it as a .dds file from the game. Or maybe one of the devs can give us more hints at other underwater stations?

I seem to recall seeing this map somewhere... but I can't remember exactly where. Possibly in the quarters of someone who was involved in the project to let WAU control the entire PATHOS-II station. Seems like a shadowy organization, possibly experimenting with AI in deep undersea locations such as PATHOS-II. The map does seem to suggest there are other AIs out there, potentially in charge of other facilities like PATHOS-II.

Could be Alpha was the original base and this is an old map. Something happened at Alpha but they decided to give it another go but tried to cover up the failed attempt. This is pure speculation however.

I actually have my own theory on that. Whilst I had not realised Carthage had its own undersea base, I do feel there was a little bit of sequel bating in the games major "choice" (SPOILERS) killing the Wau may not be a real choice. Obviously if you leave it alone, events continue as they were. If you kill it, I believe you merely delay it with horrible consequences. Note how Ross has to kill you to ensure it is the only way it will stay dead if you do what he asks. I would be surprised if they did not play somewhat into that, especially when Simon 3 is left alone in phi. (END OF SPOILERS).

"I know where you are in the Yun. Remember to keep sagety contact. Can use tenesosenIL 0109 to lap. AI official referral llag. assvema012 bound to M- MArt to ailments promise $ square T. 7 does not reflect PAD technology."

Then some nonsense after that, no idea how accurately that has translated.

On an unrelated note, in the future OP you might want to upload images via imgur instead of tinypic. Tinypic isn't that great when it comes to embedding images on Reddit and their site comes across a bit spammy (this is coming from somebody who used to use the site 10 years ago).

This doesn't prove that there are survivors, but merely that there are other facilities. I'd say that the comet was canon to take out mankind. It would be very narrow minded of simon to mention to the woman that she is "the last human" in this case!

Well, there's this maphttp://imgur.com/xafVa9SThere are only 4 readable tacked notes and 9 tack locations. I assume the tack location under the Atlantic Ocean text is Upsilon?What about the other 4 tack locations (assuming one is Upsilon)?

They're all on mainland, probably they are comm or relay stations. In the game there's a log of the last calls to Upsilon, and there is Lisbon, London, New York and Cadiz (in Spain).I can't explain the connections as seen on the map though.

Are we sure we can consider this map as canon? I think we need some sort of confirmation.Until now nobody has seen this picture in-game, and beside Carthage (without referring to it as another station) there is absolute no mention of the other underwater stations.Since a map like this exists, I presume their presence it's not a secret (map is from Haimatsu, one of the companies that joined the project). Then why nobody speaks about them? Not even the information video in the shuttle said nothing.